According to "Integrating Technology: Some Things You Should Know" by Lauri B. Dias Learning & Leading with Technology Volume 27 Number 3 1999

There are 5 stages of technology integration:

• Entry: mainly teacher directed activities
• Adoption: technology is being used to teach children how to use technology
• Adaptation: students use word processors, databases, graphic programs, and computer assisted instruction (productivity is a major theme
• Appropriation: a milestone where there is evidence of project based instruction, collaboration, cooperation, and creative schedules
• Invention: experimentation with new instructional patterns and ways of relating to peers and students, reflecting on their teaching and old patterns of instructions.

At the highest level of integration we should see, interdisciplinary project based instruction, team teaching, and individually paced instruction. Students experts will emerge to assist their peers and teachers with technology, and students will work together in more collaborative ways.

In Washington State, Educators are now required to report the level of technology integration in their classrooms using a 3 tier rubric. In the Bellingham School District, this takes the form of the Pilot Survey. http://www.edtech.wednet.edu/pilot/.
The reports generated from this survey are used to plan and set goals for the district technology plan.

In this reporting rubric the 3 tiers are: http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/TechIntTiers.aspx

• Teacher Focus on Productivity: focuses on the teacher using technology to get their job done.
• Instructional Presentation and Student Productivity: teacher facilitation of large group learning activities and student productivity use of technology.
• Powerful Student-Centered 21st Century Learning Environment: promotes students to be actively engaged in using technology in individual and collaborative learning activities.

2007-2010 Technology Plan